I have written before about this and I guess I will again. The relentless creeping dependency on technology - initially on the desktop and the tools contained thereon and in the last year or two on web services.
Those really dinky and useful tools hosted by someone else. Somewhere else. That you start not to think about and and then you take them for granted.
And then WHAM - you loose stuff. Tom Raftery (an award winning blogger :-) did just that with Hotmail. And got rightly upset - at Microsoft. Read all about it here.
Where do I stand on this? I use Gmail - and connect with a POP account so that it also is kept on my Thunderbird. We are using Basecamp for the Pure Play and I am comfortable there because it is a paid for service - so I understand the commercial model for sustaining the service and there is a defined business relationship.
keith
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